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...Rake's Progress. In Eastbourne, England, Albert Storey told police that, after 17 years as the keeper of a hotel's liquor cellar without snitching a single drink, he had during the last five years-under the influence and with the assistance of a woman friend-stolen and consumed some 4,337 bottles of beer, 75 bottles of whisky, 49 bottles of gin, 11 bottles of sherry...
...would make $50 million worth of A pictures for RKO release. The movies, to be cranked out at a production-line rate of twelve each year, would be financed 40% by Howard Hughes and 60% by Eastern banks. Besides weekly salaries of $2,700 apiece, Wald and Krasna would rake in 50% of the net profits on each of their 60 films...
...here, including the responsible Chinese I have so far seen, realize that this is no time to rake up the past for recriminations' sake. But all here also realize that this past has created problems to be dealt with now-and to be dealt with by U.S. officials whose attitudes and capacities, for the most part, can only be measured by the recent past...
Next he squelched Co-Producer Richard Aldrich's idea of sharing risks by bringing other producers into the deal: "The entrepreneurs must be a solid single firm taking all the profits and risking all the loss . . . Are you a man of business or a philanthropic distributor of rake-offs...
Pompey, once stopped to help a neighbor rake the leaves off his lawn...